Download Yindjibarndi Newsletter 15 March 2011

WIRLUMURRA BOSS DRAGS
CLAIMANTS, SYLVIA &
MAVIS, OUT OF YAC MEETING
Allery Sandy and the Wirlumurra FMG breakaway mob are really
good when it comes to spreading tales about how Michael Woodley is
a bully just because he is passionate about and speaks up for his Law
and culture and country against those that want to harm it and sell it.
A big gathering of YAC members had a chance to witness just what
a bully Allery Sandy
can be on Thursday
(10 March) when
she stormed into
a YAC meeting at
Juluwarlu and bullied
and shouted Mavis
Pat and Sylvia Allan
to leave the meeting
even though
they had come
there willingly
and wanted to
stay to hear
what was happening
with other
Yindjibarndi
matters.
Mavis and Sylvia
wanted to be part
of the meeting
which had several
important agenda
items concerning
Yindjibarndi affairs
Allery Sandy shows disrespect to elders.
– including negotiations
with the Department
of Water on a Memorandum of Understanding; Plan B deed of variation;
Rio Tinto heritage and negotiations; Federal Court process and
mediation; YAC membership; the move by FMG-Wirlumurra Breakaway
group to remove Ned Cheedy, Thomas Jacobs, Alum Cheedy and
Michael Woodley as name applicants from the Yindjibarndi #1 claim;
and Wirlumurra actions to allow FMG to destroy Yindjibarndi sacred
sites at Ganyjingarringunha by giving green light to their section 18
application.
But the pressure was on Sylvia to not come to the meeting even
before she got there. When Pansy Sambo picked Sylvia up, Bruce
Monadee and Amy Jerrold were telling her not to go. They warned
her that if Allery Sandy was not at the meeting, then she should not
go there either.
Pansy Sambo was sent by the other YAC Elders to invite Mavis and
Sylvia because Yindjibarndi Elder, Ned Cheedy, wanted to talk with
both of his daughters, Mavis and Sylvia – and it was to respect their
uncle Ned that Sylvia and Mavis came to the meeting; and for this
reason that Sylvia ignored Monadee and Jerrold’s threats.
It didn’t take long for Wirlumurra spies to report back to Allery
Sandy that Sylvia and Mavis had gone to a meeting – without Allery’s
permission! The YAC meeting was discussing the Rio Tinto agenda
item when Allery showed up. She shouted that Sylvia and Mavis had
to get up; that they had to leave the room NOW. Allery said that they
should not be at this meeting and said they had to come because if
they stayed ‘they might make you sign something’. She also shouted at
— 4 —
Mavis that her brother, John Sandy, was upset with the newsletter
and wanted to talk to her; and that Michelle (?) was also upset and
wanted to talk to Sylvia on the phone when she got out of the YAC
meeting.
Other people at the meeting tried to calm Allery down; they
told her that she was welcome to stay also. Senior women at the
meeting including Allery’s mother in-law, Yindjibarndi Elder Dora
Solomon, said to Allery that she was a grown woman, that she
should know better than to behave in such a disrespectful way to
Sylvia and Mavis. These two old ladies deserve more than to have an
FMG ‘Native Protector’ telling them what meeting they are allowed
to go to and not go to.
But Allery rejected the invitation to stay and was quite aggressive
and persistent to get her way with the old ladies and take them out
of the meeting as quickly as she could. First she took Mavis by the
hand, who was shaken up, and led her out to her car. Then she came
back and grabbed the old ladies bags and ordered Sylvia out. Sylvia
tried to tell Allery that she wanted to stay and listen to the rest of
the meeting, but Allery would not let them. She bullied them out of
the meeting as if they were children.
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation want
to say to Sylvia and Mavis, and any other
Yindjibarndi out there who want to know what
is really happening; and who don’t want to
be intimidated by the bullying, fear and lies
of Allery Sandy or others in the Wirlumurra
group – PLEASE come to YAC meetings, which
are always open to genuine members; and deal
with all sorts of important issues – not just FMG
business!
We should stop to think – If Michael Woodley is passionate about
and speaks up for the country his elders passed to him to protect
– what are Allery Sandy and the other Wirlumurra mob fighting
for? Their next FMG payment?
Dora Solomon told Allery she
should know better than to
disrespect Sylvia & Mavis
The truth is that to keep
on the gravy-train of cash
hand-outs from FMG,
Allery Sandy and the
Wirlumurra have to keep
a tight leash on ‘named’
Yindjibarndi #1 Claimants
like Sylvia Allan,
Mavis Pat and Aileen
Sandy, because these
ladies are essential in
FMG’s and Ronald Bower’s
strategy to get rid of Ned
Cheedy and the other 3
named claimants; and to
legitimise FMG-Wirlumurra
attacks on YAC in the
Native Title Tribunal and
the Federal Court. These
three old ladies guarantee
Wirlumurra their FMG
pay-check!
This is why both FMG
and Wirlumurra have refused to engage in mediation with YAC,
both through the Federal Court mediator and the DIA mediator
– because it is in their interest to keep Yindjibarndi divided – and
bugger the consequences for the Yindjibarndi community.